Boos, Bravos and Tidbits

BRAVO: to Kathy Thomas, whose homicide conviction was reversed by the Ohio Court of Appeals on the ground that the court should have admitted into evidence expert testimony on the "unique state of mind of the battered woman" (see story on page 11).

BOO: To local corporations which have, according to backroom scuttlebut, started pressuring WomenSpace to disavow support for Cleveland Women Working. Responsible for initiating an enormous mous discrimination suit against National City Bank, CWW is now seen by corporate executives as a target to be isolated and defeated. After reaffirming its commitment to CWW, WomenSpace has heard that future funding may be difficult to find as long as CWW continues its membership in the WomenSpace coalition. In spite of troubles ahead, Executive Director Linda Batway declares that WomenSpace is "very proud of CWW's efforts" and explains that both groups are planning strategies for meeting the problem.

BRAVO: To Karen Nussbaum, Executive Director of Women Working, for her recent appearance on national public television's "MacNeil-Lehrer Report". Representing the national organization of women office. workers based in Cleveland, Nussbaum intelligently discussed the health problems suffered by office workers when Video Display Terminals (VDT's) are introduced into an office setting in order to increase productivity. Although her opponents, two management consultants, tried to belit-

tle the effects of VDT's, Nussbaum pursued her analysis with sharp persistence.

BRAVO: To the members of the collective of Upstream, a Canadian women's publication in Ottawa, Ontario. While it is distressing to learn that yet another publication has ceased publishing, we applaud their four-year-long effort on behalf of the Canadian women's movement.

BRAVO: To the women who worked so hard and long to publish the Cleveland Women's Handbook, which will be available later this month, We were starting to wonder....

BRAVO: To Judy Chicago's "Dinner Party,' which has finally made it back into the public eye. Now on view in Boston, it will travel to New York City in October. Watch for details in next month's WSW

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Vernie Weaver's Story (continued from page 9)

They'd play awhile. I'd come into town by horse and buggy and walked a lot of times. We had an open buggy and a top buggy. The top buggy wasn't like the Amish buggy. It had spikes, you know, that come down, and then you could fold it back.

I would come into town once a week for groceries. We'd carry them out. We'd buy sugar and coffee. We got salt by the barrel and used that for the stock and for the house too. And I still buy it by the 100

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pound; I have it to use and then in the winter on the ice. We took wheat and had it ground. We got flour, middlings, and bran. The middlings are used for the pigs. I think we give the bran to the pigs, too. And when a cow come fresh [started giving milk after the calf was born], why, she always had a bucket of

warm bran.

I had an overshoot put on the barn to keep the rain

from going in. It was red trimmed in white. They'[the Amish who bought the farm] have it all in red. They was no Amish [back then] on this side of Winesburg. I couldn't get an Amish man to farm for me nohow. So I sold it then, and moved in here. That was in '58. I've never been back since I moved out.

It's not too bad here. I didn't know where I wanted to go. You see, I sold in the spring, and I kept my right there 'til in September or November. And I come in here, and I didn't know where I wanted to go. I walked up there to Will Irvin's and I thought, "No, I don't want that," and then downtown was Amelia McClintock. And I thought, "No, I don't want that." And I come here and Mrs. Freeman had the bandstand and play. And on Decoration Day, when they'd come back from the cemetery, why, a big lemon pie sittin' out there on the stair steps. She was washin'. And I thought, "I like this." So I bought this.

I brought the organ from the farm. I had it ever since I was 12 years old. I did play it, but there's something wrong with the wind now. I brought the chairs and the table, and three beds, I believe. Oh, yes, I brought a bunch of chickens. I had a chicken house built out here. I sold eggs. I got one chicken now for myself, but she doesn't lay now. She did, though. She laid pretty good.

I had that porch put on. I sit out there on the porch a good bit. And when I'm out, I have to walk with a cane or hang on to somebody. Otherwise, I'm OK. think I have a pretty nice home now. I sit out there on the porch the biggest part of the time, that is, when it's warm enough. I don't like holidays. There's nothing doin' over here [at the restaurant across the street] during holidays. And Sundays there's nothing doin' over here. So, I like the days when there's something doin'.

I got good neighbors, ah-hmm! Over there they do anything for me...and over there. Both sides.